1w ago

Milhouse Has 'US' In It.

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Not the only two options and I wish people would stop pretending they are. We aren’t the fucking US, we don’t have a two party system.
- Problem is you have to strategically vote in your riding or else you're throwing away a vote. Luckily I live in Saanich so I can vote greens.
- Well the problem about the US is that it has a first past the post system, which makes it incredibly difficult for third-parties to gain any influence. And just like the US or the UK, that also applies to Canada. So yeah, the same thing about only voting for one of these making sense does apply to you.
  Technically, the US also has more than two parties.
  
  We have first past the post too. But there are a shit ton of ridings, including mine, where the liberals are absolutely not viable, but the NDP are, so if you’re going to vote for the liberals you might as well be voting conservative. That’s how it works here.
- Right, I'll take your bets on NDP, BQ or Green winning the election.
  
  That’s not how our voting system works. Why do so many Canadians comically not understand how our voting system works?
  
  That's not how it works. If the conservatives can't get a majority, the liberals can form a minority government with the NDP or greens. This is what our government currently looks like and it got us dental healthcare. Minority governments can be very effective at creating social change, especially when most Canadians have to be dragged kicking and screaming into policies that benefit them.
- Or, you can vote green or NDP and throw away your vote.
  
  NDP has 24 seats in the house of commons so they're winning some elections.
  
  Yeah that’s not how strategic voting works in Canada at all. That rhetoric was stupid in the US, but it’s extra mega ultra fucking stupid to try and say in a Canadian election. If you’re going to vote against your morals to stop the conservatives or whatever you’re insinuating you have to look at your ridings and vote accordingly.

Nonsense.

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